The government spokesman system, as the ceremonial means of information publication, should avoid functional alienation.

作为具有“仪式效应”的信息公开手段，新闻发言人制度应避免功能异化。

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The Ministry of Information still controls publishing licenses and any publication that harms the reputation of a government department can still be reprimanded under the Printers and Publishers Registration Act.

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However FOI campaigner Ms Brooke told the BBC that by introducing changes to the publication of expenses as a statutory instrument, the government was effectively changing the Freedom of Information act, she said.

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"It is deeply worrying that after a number of major data losses and the publication of two government reports on high profile breaches of the Data Protection Act, more personal information has been reported lost, " he said.

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